Guantanamo Bay is a black mark on this country. Locking up prisoners for decades with no due process makes us no better than North Korea or China when it comes to human rights. It is time for Obama and the do-nothing congress to do the right thing and shut it down. I know everyone is ringing their hands over what harm may come from transferring or releasing the prisoners. The bigger question is: what harm will come from leaving them in there?
The George W. Bush Presidential Library opened in Texas last week. Fun for the whole family!
Jack Wagner has run for a lot of offices. He's been City Council President, a State Senator and State Auditor General. He has also run unsuccessfully for mayor and governor. Now, with Luke out of the way, he has jumped into the mayor's race at the last minute. If this doesn't work out, maybe he can run for governor again.
The explosion at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas was tragic, but avoidable. Rick Perry has been bragging about how business-friendly (i.e., no regulations) his state is, even trying to lure companies away from other states to relocate to Texas. The fertilizer plant had not been inspected since 2006.
One of the tragic aspects of the bombing in Boston was the lopsided response by police and the media compared to other crimes. Where are the SWAT teams when violence occurs in African American neighborhoods every day? Where is the wall-to-wall media coverage when children are gunned down in those urban areas? We have become calloused to those kind of killings.
PG editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers blogs about the process of creating his daily editorial cartoons.
